{"id":7034,"date":"2009-04-17T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/04\/various-reaction-to-pope-tony-blair-in-the-english-press\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:05:16","slug":"various-reaction-to-pope-tony-blair-in-the-english-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2009\/04\/various-reaction-to-pope-tony-blair-in-the-english-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Various Reaction to Pope Tony Blair in the English Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

My fave:<\/p>\n

How typical of Tony Blair. He\u2019s been a Roman Catholic for only 20 minutes, yet he\u2019s already lecturing the Pope on how to \u2018modernise\u2019 the founding Church of Christendom, so as to make its doctrines more congenial to Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also:<\/p>\n

But leave aside Mr Blair\u2019s monstrous impertinence and his flesh-creeping, folksy language. What emerges with ringing clarity from his interview is that he sees the Roman Catholic Church, to which he converted two years ago, in precisely the same way as he saw the Labour party when he joined it. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe regards it as an institution to be moulded in his own image, to spread the doctrines of Blairism to the four corners of the earth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps he should consider American citizenship.<\/p>\n

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